South Carolina · Nonprofit
ARTS ETC
ARTS ETC (South Carolina) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $172,134 to it, the largest being The Lucy & Eleanor S Upton Charitable Foundation c/o Mandel Fekete & Bloom ($38,500). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $263k
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $172k
- Net assets
- $471k
What Arts Etc does
Mission
We are proud to announce that funds raised from the 2025 Kiawah Art & House Tour will support visual, performing, and literary arts programs for the youth of Johns and Wadmalaw Islands. We identify, assess and support professional art programs for the enhancement of the curriculum at partner schools.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
PURE Theatre will provide an after-school theatre program offered in partnership with Communities in Schools for Haut Gap Middle School and St. Johns High School Youth Companies,. The program is centered around the development and growth associated with the stages of building a live performance. PURE Theatre's Youth Company is a comprehensive program designed to empower and showcase the unique skill sets of students through the process of live performance. The program aims to foster creativity, build confidence, and cultivate an ensemble mindset among students while providing an enriching experience in the performing arts. Through participation in the program, students hone crucial life skills, including the ability to think creatively, be responsible to oneself and others, work in a group to achieve common goals, and, through PURE's methodology of scene study, understand human motivation and behavior better. The program will begin with one-time workshops being held at the start of the school year for each target school. In these workshops, students will gain insight into the depth of theatre arts training and explore creative learning through theatre exercises. The curriculum for…
$45,215 spent18% of program spendingCharleston Stage The mission of the not-for-profit 501(c)(3) Charleston Stage Company is to provide space for children of all ages, backgrounds etc. to experience a collaborative environment through the performing arts. CS prides itself on developing a dynamic org. that celebrates live theatre and the positive effects it has on the local community. This year's funding by Arts etc will facilitate Charleston Stage performances at schools in the Johns Island community. These performances will be at no cost to the school, students or the community. The following workshops and school matinees for Frierson and Angel Oak Elementary have been confirmed: Frierson Elementary 205 students and teachers will attend a school matinee performance of "A Year with Frog and Toad" on October 25th at 9:30am and in-school workshops will take place October 8th - 11th. Angel Oak Elementary School 205 students and teachers will attend a school matinee performance of "A Year with Frog and Toad" on October 24th at 11:45am and in-school workshops will take place October 29th - November 1st. Additionally, the mini-musical at Mt. Zion Elementary will start rehearsing the week of December 2nd with a performance…
$44,978 spent18% of program spendingThe Charleston Gaillard Center (the Gaillard) is a non-profit arts organization located in Charleston, South Carolina, that commissions, supports, presents, and produces ambitious, multidisciplinary cultural programming and provides access to the best local, national, and global artists and companies on its stage. Deeply rooted in the community, the Gaillard is committed to elevating local and regional voices and partnering with Charleston institutions to reflect the city's diversity. The Gaillard serves over 30,000 students annually through its multi-faceted, curriculum-based Arts Education Program that includes mainstage productions with accompanying lesson plans and in-school workshops, masterclasses, teacher professional development and a series of summer camp programs. With help of generous support from Arts, Etc., the Gaillard has experienced record-breaking participation from schools in Johns and Wadmalaw Islands over the past several years. During the current 2023-24 school year, the Gaillard has provided barrier-free access to the arts for 571 students from Mount Zion Elementary School, Angel Oak Elementary School, Frierson Elementary School, Haut Gap Middle School, and…
$30,000 spent12% of program spendingIn addition to the top three service programs, Arts etc. spent $135,322 to support 11 other programs involving youth on Johns and Wadlamaw Islands. The entities we worked with, and the amount of funding to each, are as follows: Chamber Music Charleston $27,130 Charleston Galliard Center $20,000 Palmetto City Ballet $20,000 Charleston Jazz $18,455 Angel Oak ES/Arts Now $12,500 Engaging Creative Minds $10,400 Yo Art $6,140 Frierson Elementary $6,021 Haut Gap Middle School $5,876 Charleston Children's Opera $4,000 Gibbes Museum $4,000 St. Johns High School $800
$135,322 spent53% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $255,515.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $296k to $437k (+48%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
44% of ARTS ETC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Jennifer Tesoro
Membership Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $6k → $24k.
3 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ARTS ETC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ARTS ETC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 91% · 2019 100% · 2020 34% · 2021 43% · 2022 45% · 2023 34% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
71% of ARTS ETC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
ARTS ETC draws 71% of its grant income from funders outside South Carolina, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $28k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
ARTS ETC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like ARTS ETC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In South Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
52% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ARTS ETC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ARTS ETC?
- ARTS ETC (South Carolina) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $172,134 to it, the largest being The Lucy & Eleanor S Upton Charitable Foundation c/o Mandel Fekete & Bloom ($38,500). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ARTS ETC have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $172,134 in grants to ARTS ETC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ARTS ETC?
- The Lucy & Eleanor S Upton Charitable Foundation c/o Mandel Fekete & Bloom is the largest funder on record, with $38,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ARTS ETC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Carolina. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 14 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing